The autumn wind beneath the moon.
涙とふ床の月だにさびしきに深き秋なる風の音かな
| namida tou toko no tsuki dani sabishiki ni fukaki aki naru kaze no oto kana | Teardrops pay a call To my bed where e’en the moon Is lonely In the depths of autumn At the sound of wind. |
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Sankashū I: 34
Shunzei-kyō no musume-shū 18
こぎはなれゆく月影ぞあはれなる虫明の松の風の音かな
| kogihanare yuku tsukikage zo awarenaru mushiake no matsu no kaze no oto kana | Drifting ever Further, the moonlight Moves my heart with The pines at Mushiake Sounding in the wind! [i] |
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[i] See: Seaways. 何となく心ぞとまるそれとみてこぎはなれゆくむしあけの松 nani to naku / kokoro zo tomaru / sore to mite / kogihanareyuku / mushiake no matsu ‘Somehow, / They linger in my heart / Having seen them / Drifting ever further, / The pines of Mushiake.’ (Shunzei gosha hyakushu 491); From a Fifty Poem Sequence on the Moon. むしあけのせとのしほひのあけがたになみの月かげとほざかるなり mushiake no / seto no shiohi no / akegata ni / nami no tsukikage / tōzakaru nari ‘At Mushiake / Strait the receding tide / At dawn, / The waves carrying the moonlight / Into the distance.’ Yoshitsune (Akishino gesseishū I: 64)
Tsuzurabumi 83
Shunzei-kyō no musume-shū 14
なつ衣うすくや人の成りぬらんうつ蝉の音にぬるる袖かな
| natsugoromo usuku ya hito no narinuran utsusemi no oto ni nururu sode kana | Summer garb Scanty has he Become, perhaps? An abandoned cicada shell’s sound is Drenched sleeves![i] |
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[i] See: 空蝉の羽におく露の木がくれてしのびしのびにぬるる袖かな utsusemi no / ha ni oku tsuyu no / kogakurete / shinobishinobi ni / nururu sode kana ‘Upon an abandoned cicada shell’s / Wings fall dewdrops / Hidden ‘mongst the trees / Secretly, so secretly, / Drenched are my sleeves!’ Utsusemi (Genji monogatari 25)
SKKS XVII: 1683
To say that from now on they should rest and relax in the pines’ shade, when he visited someone’s house.
かげにとて立ちかくるれば唐衣ぬれぬ雨ふるまつの声かな
| kage ni tote tachikakurureba karakoromo nurenu ame furu matsu no koe kana | In the shade, I say, To stand and hide myself away, for Upon my Cathay robe Will fall soughing rain— The sound of pines! |
Tsurayuki
Kinkai wakashū 695
Composed on seeing an aged pine on the rocky shore while on the road to a place called Misaki.[i]
いその松いくひささにか成りぬらんいたく木高き風のおとかな
| iso no matsu ikuhisasa ni ka narinuran itaku kodakaki kaze no oto kana | The pine tree on the rocky shore Has for how many eternities Endured? The tree, so very high, as is The sound of the wind! |
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[i] Misaki 三崎 lies on the Miura Peninsula 三浦半島 on the far eastern side of Sagami Bay. Sanetomo is known to have visited Misaki in the Third Month, Kenryaku 2 [April 1212] and this poem was probably composed then.
Kinkai wakashū 591
There is a river called the Sagami River. I composed this to say I would board a boat and cross it after the moon had risen.[i]
ゆふづくよさすや川せのみなれ棹なれてもうとき浪のおとかな
| yūzukuyo sasu ya kawase no minarezao narete mo utoki nami no oto kana | On a moonlit night, The beams strike the river rapids— The well-worn pole to the water May be accustomed, yet troublesome is The sound of waves![ii] |
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[i] This river would have been familiar to Sanetomo, as it flows into the sea some twenty kilometres to the west of Kamakura, where the shogunate was headquartered. Based on the poem, the boat would have been a ferry, punted, rather than sailed across it.
[ii] See: Topic unknown. ゆふづく夜さすやをかべの松のはのいつともわかぬこひもするかな yūzukuyo / sasu ya okabe no / matsu no ha no / itsu to mo wakanu / koi mo suru kana ‘On a moonlit night / The beams strike the hillside / Through the pine needles / All year round, / As constant is my longing.’ Anonymous (Kokinshū XI: 490)
Nishinomiya uta’awase 16
Round Sixteen
Left
荻のはは暮行く風に音すなり我がまつ人のかからましかば
| ogi no ha wa kureyuku kaze ni otosu nari wa ga matsu hito no kakaramashikaba | The cogon grass fronds With the falling twilight breezes Sound out, though Were it the man I’m waiting for It would be better… |
Major Controller of the Left Tametaka
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Right
逢ふことはかた野にしげる荻の葉の音をばたつな秋ははつとも
| au koto wa katano ni shigeru ogi no ha no oto oba tatsu na aki wa hatsu tomo | Our meeting, so hard: On the hillside thickly growing, O, cogon grass fronds Do not make a sound! For with autumn’s end I have had enough, yet.. |
Horikawa, Court Lady to Her Highness
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I feel that the emotions encompassed by the sound of the wind in ‘Were it the man I’m waiting for / It would be better’ sounded more striking than ‘On the hillside thickly growing, / O, cogon grass fronds’.
Nishinomiya uta’awase 15
Cogon grass and the Same
Round Fifteen
Left
うき人を驚かすべき方ぞなきうらやましきは荻の上風
| ukibito o odorokasubeki kata zo naki urayamashiki wa ogi no uwakaze | That cruel girl: To make her notice me I have no way at all! How I envy The wind blowing o’er the cogon grass! |
Lecturer Kakuga
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Right
荻原やよかぜぞつらき音せずはねてこそ人を夢にみましか
| ogiwara ya yokaze zo tsuraki oto sezu wa nete koso hito o yume ni mimashika | O, plain of cogon grass, How unkind is the wind tonight! For without your sound, then Indeed, I would sleep that she I would glimpse within my dreams… |
The Head
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The conception of love sounds superior at present in envying the ‘wind blowing o’er the cogon grass’ than it does in the ‘unkind is the wind tonight’.
